Samba Configuration

Darrin M. Gorski dgorski at ford.com
Mon Aug 11 13:39:08 GMT 1997



It looks like you need to use the CNAME, instead of an alias. The SMB
'Computername' is probably the same as the DNS 'Hostname' (CNAME), and
you're trying the alias. try:

smbclient -L \\\\slav17

On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Fyodor Yarochkin wrote:

> > Try:
> > 
> > 	smbclient -I 194.135.207.5 -L \\\\steve
> nope.. the same story:(
> BlackStar:/usr/samba/bin# smbclient -I 194.135.207.17 -L \\\\Istc_computer
> Added interface ip=194.135.207.21 bcast=194.135.207.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> Session request failed (131,130) with myname=BLACKSTAR.COM 
> destname=ISTC_COMPUTER
> Called name not present
> Try to connect to another name (instead of ISTC_COMPUTER)
> You may find the -I option useful for this
> BlackStar:/usr/samba/bin# ping Istc_computer
> PING slav17.blackstar.com (194.135.207.17): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 194.135.207.17: icmp_seq=0 ttl=32 time=2.7 ms
> 64 bytes from 194.135.207.17: icmp_seq=1 ttl=32 time=2.2 ms
> 
> --- slav17.blackstar.com ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 2.2/2.4/2.7 ms
> BlackStar:/usr/samba/bin# nslookup istc_computer
> Server:  blackstar.com
> Address:  127.0.0.1
> 
> Name:    slav17.blackstar.com
> Address:  194.135.207.17
> Aliases:  istc_computer.blackstar.com
> 
> BlackStar:/usr/samba/bin#
> 
> 

                                [Darrin]

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Darrin M. Gorski, Research Computer Systems Network Support
Scientific Research Laboratories, Ford Motor Company
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